Re: PostgreSQL vs. Oracle vs. Microsoft - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Greg Sabino Mullane
Subject Re: PostgreSQL vs. Oracle vs. Microsoft
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In response to Re: PostgreSQL vs. Oracle vs. Microsoft  (Alex Turner <armtuk@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: PostgreSQL vs. Oracle vs. Microsoft  (Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>)
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> Oracle is not that expensive - standard one can be got for $149/user
> or $5k/CPU, and for most applications, the features in standard one
> are fine.

Don't forget your support contract cost, as well as licenses for each
of your servers: development, testing, QA, etc.

Is it really as "cheap" as 5K? I've heard that for any fairly modern
system, it's much more, but that may be wrong.

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